SOVIET RELATIONS WITH GERMANY

Southland Times, Issue 24332, 13 January 1941, Page 5

SOVIET RELATIONS WITH GERMANY

INTENTION OF FOLLOWING PEACEFUL POLICY (Received January 12, 10 p.m.) MOSCOW, January 1.1. The newspaper Pravda says: Despite enemies who try to drive a wedge between us, Soviet Russia intends to pursue a peaceful policy towards Germany, and towards any country exercising a sane attitude towards the Soviet. The newspaper Izvestia comments: Leading politicians in Britain and America think that while the United States is permitted to sell everything to Britain, including warships, and still remain neutral, Soviet Russia is infringing the neutrality laws merely by selling grain to Germany. This is juggling with neutrality and international law, and Russia intends to ignore such an attitude. The fact is that stabilized economic relations between the world’s two greatest countries constitute them as the main pillars of peace in the world. A German news agency declared that Russia and Germany have completed the greatest grain deal in history, many billions of mjrks being involved. The agency added: Germany is receiving petroleum and ores and great quantities of cotton from Russia. A London message states: The Sunday Times says: There is a widespread impression in London that the RussoGerman pact is a disappointment to the Germans. Russia apparently does not wish to quarrel with Germany over non-essentials being content to continue to provide Germany with oil, cotton, timber, manganese ore, and other raw materials. Russian exports of cotton to Germany last year were fourfold greater than in 1939.